Is the hammer head a capital or not?!

[GrumpyCat]

Im getting mixed signals CIG... they call it a capital in some ATVs, they call it a corvette now.. but it has NO cap ship components.

Do i need to add it to my cap collection or not?!?!

 

[Thraesh]

It's not apparently, I asked in discord for you and that was the unanimous answer

 

[Phantomoftruth]

Im getting mixed signals CIG... they call it a capital in some ATVs, they call it a corvette now.. but it has NO cap ship components.

Do i need to add it to my cap collection or not?!?!

It fits in the same space as the Polaris which only has Cap items in Radar and power plant v hammerhead w 2 large powerplant and medium radar. HH doesn't need the radar for range of firefight

 

[Printimus]

Officially no, unofficially yes. CIG's ship classification system is a hot mess right now.

 

[GrumpyCat]

i guess ill wait till its official

 

[Blind Owl]

I think the important question is how much beer can it carry and how big an explosion does it make when ramming it into anything and everything?

 

[Radegast74]

It gets called a "capital ship" now because it is one of the biggest in-game, but ultimately, it won't really be one.

 

[August]

I mean, regardless of classification it’s sexy.

 

[Talonsbane]

I think the important question is how much beer can it carry and how big an explosion does it make when ramming it into anything and everything?

How large of a beer can is it capable of crushing & how large would the beer bottle have to be to use the gap in the Hammerhead to pop open its cap? Either way, Cheers!

 

[Kiladyn]

On the wiki it calls it a patrol ship and in my mind that fits, a large multicrew patrol about the size of a corvette but not one. Corvettes are sometimes considered the smallest cap ships but I think the Hammerhead with its role and abilities that it doesnt quite make the cut.

 

[DirectorGunner]

I think it's a Corvette, because of the lack of capital class ship parts and less function. And that capital ships have at least some capital class ship parts and have more function.
However... if you can put capital class ship parts on a ship.. it may approach capitol class status in durability. so......
Yea... it's a damn hot mess.

 

[Sirus7264]

Im getting mixed signals CIG... they call it a capital in some ATVs, they call it a corvette now.. but it has NO cap ship components.

Do i need to add it to my cap collection or not?!?!

If it doesnt have cap ship components then it isnt a capital. Aot of people confuse capital ships for the "Size" of the ship but there is alot more to it then that. thats like calling an oil freighter a warship.

 

[DirectorGunner]

thats like calling an oil freighter a warship.

I was thinking about the exact same analogy but realized it wasn't the best analogy so I didn't include it.
If I put deck mounted torpedo launchers, anti-air guns, landing pads, maybe 1 or two artillery cannons, and bigger engines on an oil freighter... with retractable walls that make it look like it's covered in shipping containers that retract when ready to fire...... I just created a sleeper warship.

IRL examples

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/how-the-u-s-navy-turned-an-oil-tanker-into-a-helicopte-1658743256

and sometimes when oil freighter VS war ship... oil freighter wins lol
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/17/europe/norway-navy-sunken-frigate-scli-intl/index.html

 

[Sirus7264]

I was thinking about the exact same analogy but realized it wasn't the best analogy so I didn't include it.
If I put deck mounted torpedo launchers, anti-air guns, landing pads, maybe 1 or two artillery cannons, and bigger engines on an oil freighter... with retractable walls that make it look like it's covered in shipping containers that retract when ready to fire...... I just created a sleeper warship.

IRL examples

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/how-the-u-s-navy-turned-an-oil-tanker-into-a-helicopte-1658743256

and sometimes when oil freighter VS war ship... oil freighter wins lol
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/17/europe/norway-navy-sunken-frigate-scli-intl/index.html

You also forget the actual construction of the ship such as grades of steel used in the framing thicknesses, armor, engine sizes and power plants, It's a bit more complicated then alot of people think. thats why when a somalian suicide squad blows into the side of a warship it doesnt just snap in half at the keel.

 

[Thraesh]

Well I watched a small combat ship solo blow up a hammerhead today in a few shots with the new singe weapons so does anything size wise matter currently if you can just nuke a ship that size in a few shots. Yes this was after the already nerf to them

 

[Blind Owl]

Well I watched a small combat ship solo blow up a hammerhead today in a few shots with the new singe weapons so does anything size wise matter currently if you can just nuke a ship that size in a few shots. Yes this was after the already nerf to them

New singe weapons? Wut?

 

[Thraesh]

yep hit scan weapons and now there is auto aim to add on top of it

 

[Blind Owl]

yep hit scan weapons and now there is auto aim to add on top of it

Jeeeeeeesus. I'll look into it.

 

[Vavrik]

Jeeeeeeesus. I'll look into it.

Banu Tachyon Singe Cannon. It's S3

 

[Blind Owl]

Banu Tachyon Singe Cannon. It's S3

Roger roger. Thank you.